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-Shortly after the United States agreed in early 2007 to a deal with North Korea aimed at shutting down Kim Jong Il's nuclear weapons program, part of which included taking Pyongyang off Washington's list of state sponsors of terrorism, Deputy National Security Adviser '''[[Elliott Abrams]]''' sent a series of e-mails to administration officials deriding the agreement. According to the ''Washington Post'', Abrams expressed "bewilderment over the agreement and [demanded] to know why North Korea would not have to first prove it had stopped sponsoring terrorism before being rewarded with removal from the list, according to officials who reviewed the messages".{{ref|0}}
+Shortly after the United States agreed in early 2007 to a deal with North Korea aimed at shutting down Kim Jong Il's nuclear weapons program, part of which included taking Pyongyang off Washington's list of state sponsors of terrorism, Deputy National Security Adviser '''[[Elliott Abrams]]''' sent a series of e-mails to administration officials deriding the agreement. According to the ''Washington Post'', Abrams expressed "bewilderment over the agreement and [demanded] to know why North Korea would not have to first prove it had stopped sponsoring terrorism before being rewarded with removal from the list, according to officials who reviewed the messages".<ref>Glenn Kessler, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/14/AR2007021401695.html Conservatives Assail North Korea Accord]," ''Washington Post'', February 15, 2007.</ref>
 ==Abrams & the Middle East==
 Although his portfolio in President George W. Bush's [[National Security Council]] (NSC) involves democracy promotion abroad, Abrams is widely regarded as being one of the key champions of the neoconservative line on foreign affairs, shunning negotiations in favor of confrontational, militaristic U.S. policies. One of his major targets has been Middle East policy, serving as a point person for policies related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and pushing a hardline stance on Iran, Syria, and Iraq. And just as he did during the Contra wars, Abrams seemed to use his perch in the NSC to fight efforts by some administration officials and members of Congress aimed at pushing diplomatic approaches to Middle East issues. As the ''Inter Press Service'' reported in early April 2007: "Just as [Abrams] worked with Reagan hardliners to undermine the Arias Plan [for Central America] 20 years ago, so he appears to be doing what he can to undermine recent efforts by Saudi King Abdullah to initiate an Arab-Israeli peace process and, for that matter, by Republican realists, and even Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, to push it forward". {{ref|1}}
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 ==References==
-#{{note|0}}Glenn Kessler, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/14/AR2007021401695.html Conservatives Assail North Korea Accord]," ''Washington Post'', February 15, 2007.
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-#{{note|1}}Jim Lobe, "[http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/4152 Elliott Abrams' Repeat Performance]," ''Right Web'', April 17, 2007.(April 9, 2007).
 #{{note|2}}Connie Bruck, "[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-19735132_ITM Back Roads: How Serious Is the Bush Administration about Creating a Palestinian State?]"'', New Yorker'', December 15, 2003.
 #{{note|3}}White House Office of the Press Secretary, Personnel Announcement, "[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/02/20050202-10.html The Appointment of Elliott Abrams as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for Global Democracy Strategy]", February 2, 2005.

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 In his chapter, Abrams laid out the "peace through strength" credo that has become the operating principle of the Bush Junior administration. "Our military strength and willingness to use it will remain a key factor in our ability to promote peace," wrote Abrams. "Strengthening Israel, our major ally in the region, should be the central core of U.S. Middle East policy, and we should not permit the establishment of a Palestinian state that does not explicitly uphold U.S. policy in the region." Presaging the Mideast policy of the Bush administration, Abrams wrote: U.S. interests "do not lie in strengthening Palestinians at the expense of Israelis, abandoning our overall policy of supporting the expansion of democracy and human rights, or subordinating all other political and security goals to the 'success' of the Arab-Israel 'peace process'." Like other right-wing Zionists, Abrams refers to the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis not for what it is—a conflict over occupied Palestinian land—but rather as an "Arab-Israel" conflict, implying that U.S. support of Israel necessitates a foreign policy that confronts all the Arab countries.
-Abrams' December 2002 appointment to be Bush's NSC director of Near East and Northern African Affairs succeeded [[Zalmay Khalilzad]], another charter PNAC signatory, who became the president's special envoy to Afghanistan. <ref>Jim Lobe, "Neoconservatives Consolidate Control Over Middle East Policy," ''Foreign Policy In Focus'', December 6, 2002.</ref>
+Abrams' December 2002 appointment to be Bush's NSC director of Near East and Northern African Affairs succeeded [[Zalmay Khalilzad]], another charter PNAC signatory, who became the president's special envoy to Afghanistan.{{ref|e}}
 Working closely with Feith, Abrams quickly became the leading behind-the-scenes actor in managing the administration's policy toward Israel and the Palestinians. In the process, he sidelined the Mideast experts in the NSC, CIA, and State Department regarded by the neoconservatives as "Arabists." Robert Leverett, an Arabic speaking Mideast specialist on loan to the NSC, was forced out after expressing his opinion that the administration should stick by its proposed "road map" for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations rather than yielding to the hardline positions of Prime Minister Sharon, AIPAC, and Abrams.
-In one of the many oddities of the Christian Right-neoconservative alliance that bolsters the Republican Party and forms a backbone of the George W. Bush administration, many neoconservative government officials are radical separatists, indeed segregationists. As Abrams, who has argued against Jews dating or attending elementary schools with non-Jews, put it in his book ''Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America'': "Outside the land of Israel, there can be no doubt that Jews, faithful to the covenant between God and Abraham, are to stand apart from the nation in which they live. It is the very nature of being Jewish to be apart—except in Israel—from the rest of the population". <ref>Elliott Abrams, ''Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America'', Free Press, 1997.</ref> Judaism, according to Abrams, demands "apartness"—not in the sense of confining oneself to a physical ghetto, but all necessary measures should be taken to prevent "prolonged and intimate exposure to non-Jewish culture." Abrams takes care to insist that his positions imply no "disloyalty" to the United States, but at the same times insists that Jews must be loyal to Israel because they "are in a permanent covenant with God and with the land of Israel and its people. Their commitment will not weaken if the Israeli government pursues unpopular policies."
+In one of the many oddities of the Christian Right-neoconservative alliance that bolsters the Republican Party and forms a backbone of the George W. Bush administration, many neoconservative government officials are radical separatists, indeed segregationists. As Abrams, who has argued against Jews dating or attending elementary schools with non-Jews, put it in his book ''Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America'': "Outside the land of Israel, there can be no doubt that Jews, faithful to the covenant between God and Abraham, are to stand apart from the nation in which they live. It is the very nature of being Jewish to be apart—except in Israel—from the rest of the population".{{ref|f}}  Judaism, according to Abrams, demands "apartness"—not in the sense of confining oneself to a physical ghetto, but all necessary measures should be taken to prevent "prolonged and intimate exposure to non-Jewish culture." Abrams takes care to insist that his positions imply no "disloyalty" to the United States, but at the same times insists that Jews must be loyal to Israel because they "are in a permanent covenant with God and with the land of Israel and its people. Their commitment will not weaken if the Israeli government pursues unpopular policies."
 Abrams' other books include ''Undue Process'' and ''Security and Sacrifice''. He has also contributed articles to ''Commentary'', ''Weekly Standard'', ''National Interest'', ''Public Interest'', and ''National Review''.
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 #{{note|d}}Philip Burch, Reagan, Bush, and Right-Wing Politics: Elites, Think Tanks, Power, and Policy, Part A, "The American Right Wing Takes Command: Key Executive Appointments" (Greenwich, CT: Jai Press, 1997), p. 219
 #{{note|e}}Jim Lobe, "Neoconservatives Consolidate Control Over Middle East Policy," ''Foreign Policy In Focus'', December 6, 2002
 ==External Links==
 *"[http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/Condi4.htm Bush and Condi Clash over Israel; President Overrules Her for the First Time]," ''Insight Magazine'', August 8, 2006.

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